I’m sorry if this hurts some feelings but when people ask me how I feel about other countries…
…I genuinely just don’t care
I don’t care about Ukraine.
I don’t care about Israel.
I just don’t care.
I’ve got 3 kids and everything is 10x more expensive than I was growing up, my grocery bill looks like a car payment and the car payment looks like a mortgage and my friends can't even get a mortgage because rent eats half their paycheck and now health insurance costs more than college used to and college costs more than a house used to, and a house costs more than a small private island used to, and utilities just keep going up they never go down, car insurance keeps going up, home insurance never goes down, every single freaking thing in life is now a subscription and you can't get rid of them, and every home repair now costs $5,000 for some reason and every company that does home repairs is one gigantic company so you either pay them what they want or your roof caves in, and I can't keep up with what AI is doing but I know it's important and that I should keep up because my friends keep getting laid off of their jobs "because of AI" but no one knows which jobs are safe from AI so everyone is panicking and side hustling just in case they are laid off, and telling their kids to skip college because there "won't be those jobs in the future" but everyone is still going to college like there will be and coming out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and I'm terrified that my kids won't ever be able to afford a home of their own and thinking back to the days when my parents raised us on one income with a house and a yard and a vacation of some kind every summer, and everyone I know is working their butts off and then some just to stay afloat, and by the time the kids are in bed and the dishes are done and I finally sit down, I don’t have the energy left to care about anything happening on the other side of the world, because I’m barely keeping up with what’s happening on this side of my own front door…
So no, I don’t have room in my heart for another country and their problems.
I'm so sorry... I just don't anymore.
And I wish, I WISH, our leaders would fight for us half as hard as they fight for everyone else.
11 years ago today, Amanda Grace Blackburn, 28, was home in Indianapolis.
Her 15 month old son was home with her.
She was pregnant.
3 men walked through her unlocked front door.
On the morning of Nov. 10, 2015.
Her husband, Pastor Davey Blackburn, had left for the gym around 6 a.m.
They only had one house key, so he left the door unlocked for her.
Larry Jo Taylor Jr., 18, Jalen Watson, 21, and Diano Gordon, 24, had already burglarized 2 homes that morning.
Watson and Gordon took her debit card to hit ATMs.
Taylor stayed behind and shot her 3 times, the last one in the back of the head.
Davey came home and found her.
She died the next day.
Their unborn daughter, Everett "Evie" Grace, died with her.
Baby Weston was unharmed.
The Perpetrators:
▪️ Larry Jo Taylor Jr. was convicted of murder after 2 mistrials and got 86 years.
He got 20 more years for an SA a week earlier, on Nov. 3, 2015. Earliest release: June 2, 2100.
▪️ Diano Gordon pleaded guilty to robbery and burglary, and the murder charge was dropped.
He got 30 years with 25 to serve. Earliest release: 2035.
▪️ Jalen Watson pleaded guilty to robbery and burglary, and the murder charge was dropped.
He testified against Taylor, and his sentence was cut to 10 years.
He walked out of prison March 22, 2023, supposedly with 5 years of home detention to follow.
I can't believe 1 of these animals is already out on the streets.
Amanda restored furniture through her business, Weathered Willow, and believed nothing is wasted.
Davey now runs a ministry by that name, Nothing Is Wasted.